TY - JOUR
T1 - Children's sex-stereotyped self-socialization through selective exposure to entertainment
T2 - Cross-cultural experiments in Germany, China, and the United States
AU - Knobloch, Silvia
AU - Callison, Coy
AU - Chen, Lei
AU - Fritzsche, Annett
AU - Zillmann, Dolf
PY - 2005/3
Y1 - 2005/3
N2 - Chinese, German, and U.S. American 4- to 6-year-old boys and girls were asked to select videos of children stories that they would most like to see. Choices were either between pairs of story videos presenting aggressive versus peaceful, nurturing content, with male or female sex of story protagonists held constant, or between pairs of videos featuring male versus female protagonists, with aggressive or peaceful story content held constant. Across countries/cultures, boys showed a strong preference for aggressive stories; girls for peaceful, nurturing ones. Again across countries/cultures, both sexes favored stories featuring protagonists of their own sex. However, the preference for same-sex story protagonists was particularly strong in American and Chinese girls. In comparison, American and Chinese boys showed only a moderate preference for male characters.
AB - Chinese, German, and U.S. American 4- to 6-year-old boys and girls were asked to select videos of children stories that they would most like to see. Choices were either between pairs of story videos presenting aggressive versus peaceful, nurturing content, with male or female sex of story protagonists held constant, or between pairs of videos featuring male versus female protagonists, with aggressive or peaceful story content held constant. Across countries/cultures, boys showed a strong preference for aggressive stories; girls for peaceful, nurturing ones. Again across countries/cultures, both sexes favored stories featuring protagonists of their own sex. However, the preference for same-sex story protagonists was particularly strong in American and Chinese girls. In comparison, American and Chinese boys showed only a moderate preference for male characters.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=16344366552&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1093/joc/55.1.122
DO - 10.1093/joc/55.1.122
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:16344366552
VL - 55
SP - 122
EP - 138
JO - Journal of Communication
JF - Journal of Communication
SN - 0021-9916
IS - 1
ER -